§ MR. MACDONALD (Tower Hamlets, Bow)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury what is the date of the Treasury authority governing the conditions of employment of assistant clerks and abstractors in the Civil Service, particularly with reference to sick leave; whether the limit of sick leave allowed to assistant clerks and abstractors is a continuous period of six weeks; and whether, in the case of any permanent Civil Service clerk, the amount of annual leave taken in any one year is deducted from the period for which full payment is allowed on account of absence through sickness?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThe Treasury letter of July 17, 1891, to the Commissioners of Customs laid down that the maximum period on full pay to be allowed to abstractors in respect of ordinary and sick leave together should not exceed six weeks in the year. The leave may or may not be continuous. A circular issued to the Departments on May 2, 1892, directed that the maximum sick leave allowable on full pay under the Orders in Council of March 21 and August 15, 1890, should include all ordinary leave.